Dangerous chemicals...
My stash of depleted darkroom chemicals has become a problem of late especially the fixer. I don't have a safe place to dispose of them in my area on New Hampshire. Does anyone know of a disposal company that will do this for a small fee?
Artcameraman wrote:
My stash of depleted darkroom chemicals has become a problem of late especially the fixer. I don't have a safe place to dispose of them in my area on New Hampshire. Does anyone know of a disposal company that will do this for a small fee?
Pack it all up with the return address of some nonexistent place, then send it all to a nuclear waste facility.
Thanks. I tried to negate through their forms but gave up. It's a problem I have after being wounded.
Artcameraman wrote:
Thanks. I tried to negate through their forms but gave up. It's a problem I have after being wounded.
Got it. Best of luck. Forms and more forms!
Several years ago before I retired, we had a truckload of photochemistry to dispose of. I called the appropriate folks and I was told to put it down the drain with lots of water to dilute it before it reached the treatment plant. Unless you are on a septic system, that should work, but as already mentioned, call first.
DirtFarmer
Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA
GreenReaper wrote:
Several years ago before I retired, we had a truckload of photochemistry to dispose of. I called the appropriate folks and I was told to put it down the drain with lots of water to dilute it before it reached the treatment plant. Unless you are on a septic system, that should work, but as already mentioned, call first.
The solution to pollution is dilution.
IMHO, pollution is actually a stupid argument. It is not a hard problem to solve
Those stuffs were already already here in the first place, they just got filtered, recombined/reacted and concentrated.
So it is true, they just need dilution. For those man made stuffs, broken down to their former states and then diluted before being returned to where they came from.
It's just the manufacturers (and users) do not want to reverse the process because it won't be a cash inflow.
Thanks. I'll be mixing it with some other materials that are going to the recycle center.
I have worked for a major retailor for a couple of years & they had a company come in for chemical removal every so often. You could try asking the manager of the company. Walmart, Target, heck even a large grocery store would use one. Maybe the company they use would take it for a fee.
I'm guessing you called the state ED?
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